Comments on: Why use Creative Commons license? http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/why-use-creative-commons-license/ Conning people into thinking I'm intelligent. Since 1982. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:24:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: gustavo http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/why-use-creative-commons-license/comment-page-1/#comment-122134 gustavo Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:41:39 +0000 http://www.swaroopch.com/?p=1166#comment-122134 <p>Thanks man, and thanks for sharing your knowledge:D</p> Thanks man, and thanks for sharing your knowledge:D

]]> By: Swaroop http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/why-use-creative-commons-license/comment-page-1/#comment-118613 Swaroop Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:50:40 +0000 http://www.swaroopch.com/?p=1166#comment-118613 <p>@Abdul Thanks, would love to hear your feedback!</p> <p>@Sandip Agreed, the traditional paper copy distribution reach is nothing to be matched yet, hence why I tried contacting publishers in the first place. But since they were not interested, I went ahead anyway. And I'm one of those guys who hold on to books for a long time too, my to-read stack on my desk is getting higher and higher :)</p> @Abdul Thanks, would love to hear your feedback!

@Sandip Agreed, the traditional paper copy distribution reach is nothing to be matched yet, hence why I tried contacting publishers in the first place. But since they were not interested, I went ahead anyway. And I’m one of those guys who hold on to books for a long time too, my to-read stack on my desk is getting higher and higher :)

]]> By: Sandip Bhattacharya http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/why-use-creative-commons-license/comment-page-1/#comment-118090 Sandip Bhattacharya Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:28:04 +0000 http://www.swaroopch.com/?p=1166#comment-118090 <p>This is from a person who has written quite a bit on technical track too. I think one good thing about book writing now is the self-publishing option that you are exercising. I have contributed on an individual capacity to a couple of multi-author books(Wrox). I don't remember the actual % that we got per chapter, but if you combine all our percentages, it was far lesser than what POD services providers like Lulu and Pothi provide. However, the reach of traditional publishers was tremendous. They are into print as well as electronic(ebooks) formats, and while our revenues went down the curve, I still kept getting checks for non-print formats way past the life-cycle of the product I was writing on (Redhat Linux 9) - a very time limited topic you would agree.</p> <p>OTOH, in self-publishing, you have to do the hard work - reach and advertising, that traditional publishers gave you. One day, when the POD folks start ensuring delivery to brick and mortar book shops, where still majority of sales take place, they can give you similar revenues(of course, they would change their price models in the process).</p> <p>About the book buying trend, I am not the right kind of people to give an opinion. :) I buy quite a few tech books, some for their reference value and some just because I like to own them :-P. I buy books for more than its purely functional value. I guess, for many people in the industry now, books are purely a means to reach a short term objective, and therefore they are rarely attached to a book just as they don't get too attached to a subject lest it goes out of fashion tomorrow.</p> This is from a person who has written quite a bit on technical track too. I think one good thing about book writing now is the self-publishing option that you are exercising. I have contributed on an individual capacity to a couple of multi-author books(Wrox). I don’t remember the actual % that we got per chapter, but if you combine all our percentages, it was far lesser than what POD services providers like Lulu and Pothi provide. However, the reach of traditional publishers was tremendous. They are into print as well as electronic(ebooks) formats, and while our revenues went down the curve, I still kept getting checks for non-print formats way past the life-cycle of the product I was writing on (Redhat Linux 9) – a very time limited topic you would agree.

OTOH, in self-publishing, you have to do the hard work – reach and advertising, that traditional publishers gave you. One day, when the POD folks start ensuring delivery to brick and mortar book shops, where still majority of sales take place, they can give you similar revenues(of course, they would change their price models in the process).

About the book buying trend, I am not the right kind of people to give an opinion. :) I buy quite a few tech books, some for their reference value and some just because I like to own them :-P . I buy books for more than its purely functional value. I guess, for many people in the industry now, books are purely a means to reach a short term objective, and therefore they are rarely attached to a book just as they don’t get too attached to a subject lest it goes out of fashion tomorrow.

]]> By: Abdul Qabiz http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/why-use-creative-commons-license/comment-page-1/#comment-118081 Abdul Qabiz Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:44:31 +0000 http://www.swaroopch.com/?p=1166#comment-118081 <p>Congratulations! It's really great move to release it under Creative Commons. Thanks for writing this book, I missed the story somehow, but now I know - can't resist to go through it.</p> <p>-abdul</p> Congratulations! It’s really great move to release it under Creative Commons. Thanks for writing this book, I missed the story somehow, but now I know – can’t resist to go through it.

-abdul

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